The company is being liquidated, and there is finally a deadline. October 16 is the last day to file a proof of claim, set on August 17 when the court issued the Chapter 7 creditors' notice (Dkt 568). That same notice sets a creditors' meeting for September 22 that anyone owed money may attend by phone or video. On August 7 the judge converted the Chapter 11 into a Chapter 7 (Dkt 533), after the company told the court that no qualified bid came in and there was no money left to run the case (Dkt 501). A court-appointed trustee, Alfred T. Giuliano, now controls what is left instead of management (Dkt 534). That does not change the order in which people get paid, and that order was already hard: the costs of the case first, then a capped slice of unpaid wages, then everyone else. For homeowners there is one piece of good news. The finance companies behind most Freedom Forever loans are now cleared to step into stranded installations and finish them, including dealing with permit offices and utilities in the company's place, and EverBright has already taken its projects back. If you are owed wages, start here.
In date order. What has already happened lives in the timeline.
If you worked for Freedom Forever and you are still owed pay, here is where you stand and what to do. This is general information, not legal advice.
The judge signed the order on August 7 turning the case into a Chapter 7 liquidation. The company had also asked the court to let it release almost all of its remaining employees. A court-appointed trustee replaces management, takes what is left, sells it, and pays out what the law says to pay. That trustee works for creditors as a group, not for the company. The order of payment does not change. The costs of the bankruptcy still come first, then the capped slice of unpaid wages, then everyone else. Your existing claim carries over, and the trustee's office has since sent its notice setting an October 16 deadline. The WARN lawsuits continue. If you are being let go in this round, keep your notice letter and its date, because whether these new terminations create fresh WARN rights is an open question nobody has answered.
Federal law (the WARN Act) requires large employers to give 60 days written notice before a mass layoff. Two groups of former workers have sued, saying Freedom Forever did not. Quinones (Adv. 26-50237) and Kelley (Adv. 26-50238, which also raises Nevada state wage law) each ask the court to treat all affected workers as a class and award up to 60 days of back pay and benefits. Only Quinones is actively moving. Nothing has been filed in Kelley since April, and the June stipulation in Quinones is captioned for both named plaintiffs, so the two appear to be running as one case. If you were part of the mass layoffs you may already be covered. Watch these dockets, and a class lawyer may contact you. You do not have to wait to be found.
In bankruptcy, the first $17,150 per person in wages, salary, commissions, vacation pay, and severance earned in the 180 days before April 15, 2026 is a priority claim, paid ahead of ordinary creditors. Anything above $17,150, or earned earlier than that window, drops to a general unsecured claim. Contributions owed to an employee benefit plan get a similar priority within the same cap.
The $17,150 cap applies to wages earned before the filing. The two class actions argue something different about the layoffs themselves. Because the terminations happened after April 15 rather than before it, the plaintiffs assert their WARN claims as administrative expense claims, which rank ahead of the priority wage slice and ahead of all unsecured claims (Dkt 457). That question has not been decided. If it holds, it moves notice-pay claims well up the line. It also explains why the plaintiffs objected to the sale itself: the draft purchase agreement assumed administrative claims only "subject to the Budget," and no budget was attached or disclosed.
The company has told the court it does not expect funds to be available for general unsecured creditors once the costs of the bankruptcy are paid. Priority wage claims sit ahead of general unsecured claims, so they are first in line among creditors, but if the estate runs short even priority claims can be cut down. How much workers actually recover now depends on what a Chapter 7 trustee can raise selling off what is left, against a bill for the costs of the case that has been running since April. File anyway. You cannot be paid on a claim you never filed.
The trustee's office runs the claims process now. Alfred T. Giuliano, Giuliano Miller & Company, 2301 East Evesham Road, Pavilion 800, Suite 210, Voorhees, NJ 08043. Phone (856) 596-7000, email atgiuliano@giulianomiller.com. Keep them updated if you move.
Each dot is one creditor, sized by how much they are owed. After merging duplicate and co-obligor filings, about 1,437 creditors are owed roughly $381 million. Color shows either the legal class or the kind of creditor. Hover any dot for the name.
The money sits at the top. The equipment suppliers, meaning the panel, inverter and racking makers, are owed roughly $157 million between about 44 companies, the single biggest block. The two largest, SolarEdge and Tesla, are listed in the company's own schedules as secured, which would put them ahead of nearly everyone else in line, including workers. The company's filings elsewhere call those liens "purported," so expect a fight over it. The hundreds of individuals, local vendors and contractors are most of the dots but small ones.
Some big creditors are missing. Mosaic, a finance partner the company named as its largest unsecured creditor at about $60 million, filed without a fixed dollar amount, so it cannot be drawn as a dot. About a quarter of the register is filed that way, which means the finance companies are understated here.
A dot is colored by the highest-ranking class that creditor claims any amount in, but sized by their total claim. One creditor can split a claim across several classes, so a large secured or priority dot does not mean the whole sum ranks that way. That is why the class view shows counts and no dollar totals.
Duplicate filings are merged, keeping the largest. Creditor type is inferred from the name, and those rules were rewritten on July 20, 2026, so type counts are not comparable to earlier versions of this page. Source: Kroll claims register, pulled July 30, 2026.
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